CFN – As we move forward from the Christmas/New Year’s season and face another year of political warfare in Canada, it is time to reflect on what awaits us. Fortunately, this time of the year provides plenty of opportunity to discuss politics, be it at family gatherings, neighbourhood parties orContinue Reading
CFN – Seasons greetings from Niagara. The situation is serious so I will delve right to the point with the hope that should you be in touch with other veterans over the holiday season, you might be inclined to discuss the plight of many Canadian disabled veterans and encourage themContinue Reading
I live in Louisiana, an oil & NG producing state. I can understand your opposition to building a pipeline to serve the Chinese market and sending a Chinese Production Company (Sinopec) oil at their cost of production. As an resident of “the States” I would much rather see the pipelineContinue Reading
CFN – We made it! If you’re reading this we’ve all jumped over the line and are blinking and breathing in 2012. Now I know some of you are fretting and getting all Mayan, but I have a hunch 2012 is going to be a heck of aContinue Reading
Putting the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers above Canada CFN – There are many economic gains to be made in exploiting the Tar Sands, and limited production could actually benefit Canada and go a little towards assuring our future in an increasingly uncertain world. But there are also many majorContinue Reading
Dear Editor, In a year end interview with Prime Minister Harper this was reported regarding Syria “He doesn’t foresee a military intervention in the near future because there is not as there was with Libya a United Nations resolution authorizing such action.” Strangely though Egypt and Syria wereContinue Reading
CFN – I’m reading today about China sticking an online dissident, Chen Xi, to ten years in Jail. Another, Chen Wei was recently given a 9 year sentence. I know; we’re not China…yet. You have the mayor of Toronto cutting off the largest paper in his city because they wouldn’tContinue Reading
CFN – Right before the holidays, as I was writing my final exam for political science in one of those giant lecture halls at the University of Ottawa, one of the essay questions I had to write about intrigued me. It asked us (the students) to argue who between theContinue Reading
CFN – Prime Minister Stephen Harper, along with his government, owe sophist (someone who argues with shrewd but intentionally fallacious reasoning) Ezra Levant a star columnist for Sun Media and the Glenn Beck Fox News North) big time, and are starting to repay the debt. Levant’s whole career has beenContinue Reading
Dear PM Stephen Harper: Today, the very day after September 11, like exactly 10 years ago, with a deep and abiding concern for the future, I sent the letter below then, as today, to the PM of Canada! While the letter is an historical fact, it is also very relevantContinue Reading
Dear Editor, The citizens’ organization Democracy Watch has noted that in Canada it is still effectively legal for a person like Karlheinz Schreiber to fundraise for and make secret donations to nomination race and party leadership candidates, to lobby and make secret deals with Cabinet ministers and government employees, andContinue Reading
CFN – Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Grand Chief Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell will travel to the Attawapiskat First Nation on Tuesday, December 20, 2011, along with the Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo and Regional Chief Angus Toulouse. The Grand Chief’s trip follows an invitation from the National Chief’sContinue Reading
CFN – Justin Trudeau sparked a storm of media coverage this week when he called Harper MP Peter Kent a “Piece of Shit” in Parliament. It reminded people of his Dad’s “Fuddle Duddle” remark, but it hits certain notes of frustration that millions of people are feeling around theContinue Reading
Hiring telephoners to say ‘There are rumours that there might be a byelection,’ (1) when there were none is untruthful. Equally so is speechifying to wheat farmers that ” his party “respects the vote” of farmers who back the single desk and suggested there won’t be any attempt to imposeContinue Reading
Since the May 2nd election, the government has never stopped lying to the population and manipulating Canadian public opinion. With an army of more than 1500 «communicators» spread out into all the departments and about 100 others in the PM’s Office, the government has flooded the media and citizens’ mailboxesContinue Reading
CFN –Speaker Andrew Scheer has delivered his ruling on the Conservative Party’s attempts to undermine Irwin Cotler in his riding of Mont Royal. The ruling Scheer presented today referred to the organized telephone contact program conducted on behalf of the Conservatives in Cotler’s riding. The questions in this survey leftContinue Reading
CFN – NDP Deputy leader and the man most likely to become the leader of the party, Outremont MP Thomas Mulcair has been busy as he heads for the leadership convention in Vancouver. Here are several reports. Today British Columbia MLA Claire Trevena, North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto andContinue Reading
I read your post on the Cornwall Free News on the border situation and agree that there are more questions than answers concerning border security, policing and setting precedents. We have known for some time that the North American Union is in the works, is always on the back burnerContinue Reading